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The technology industry is upset over a bill that would muck up the whole Internet just to keep people from illegally downloading copyrighted stuff like movies. But the "Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) is not the only dumb idea politicians have had about technology.

It's not even the only dumb tech bill they've introduced in 2011.

Our current Congress has written tech legislation that would let the government ignore all privacy laws, would force your local coffee shop to spy on you while you surfed the Web, and would crush one its own departments, the Federal Communications Commission, because some members of Congress didn't like its stance on a particular issue.